The 17-year-old Tessa (Dakota Fanning sporting a reasonable British accent) is a terminally ill Brighton schoolgirl, her leukaemia, diagnosed three years earlier, rapidly metastasising. Her parents are separated, her perky younger brother is insensitive to her situation, and she's stoically drawn up a bucket list of things to do before she dies, among them losing her virginity. It's a conventional film, rather predictable in its handling of the relationship with the boy next door, whose father has recently died, and I could have done without her best friend being pregnant and considering an abortion. But Paddy Considine does well as the father, and it's less sentimental than one might expect, certainly less so than the standard Hollywood product.